Articles
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A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
We are excited to bring WebGPU support to Firefox because it will allow richer and more complex graphics applications to run portably on the web. WebGPU is an emerging API, designed from the ground up within the W3C, to provide access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web.
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Engineering code quality in the Firefox browser: A look at our tools and challenges
Here's an insider's look at Firefox's code quality toolchain that's been designed to manage the ongoing development and monthly releases of our desktop browser. This post explores the architecture, challenges, and ongoing evolution of the process for managing code quality and patches for dealing with 21 million lines of code.
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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
Firefox 75 is chock full of handy new dev tooling: instant evaluation in the web console, event breakpoints for WebSockets, and more. New web platform features include HTML lazy loading for images, the CSS min(), max(), and clamp() functions, public static class fields, and additions to Web Animations API support.
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Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
Distinguished engineer Martin Thomson explains how this problem occurred, the implications for people who might be affected, and how problems of this nature might be avoided in future. To get there, we need to dig a little into how web caching works.
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Innovating on Web Monetization: Coil and Firefox Reality
An in-depth introduction to web monetization with Coil. Coil is a payments platform that doesn't really on advertising or personal data collection to support digital content creators directly. Firefox Reality is rolling out a Coil-based experiment for creators and consumers, and you're invited to participate or learn more about how it works, and why Mozilla is involved.
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Learn web technology at “sofa school”
Here are some web development learning resources for kids of all ages. All you need is a web browser. This collection looks at social VR experiences using Hubs and Spoke, CSS coloring and games that teach Grid and Flexbox, and WebXR field trips that are out of this world.
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Security means more with Firefox 74
The release of Firefox 74 is focused on security enhancements: Feature Policy, the Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy header, and removal of TLS 1.0/1.1 support. We’ve also got some new CSS text property features, the JS optional chaining operator, and additional 2D canvas text metric features, along with the usual wealth of DevTools enhancements and bug fixes.
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Future-proofing Firefox’s JavaScript Debugger Implementation
Optimizing the integration of Firefox Developer Tools with the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine has resulted in many benefits, including the new asynchronous call stack tracking now available in Firefox Developer Edition. In this post you can learn how that was done, down to detailed changes to memory management.
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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla’s mission. While we continue to make extensive use of both sandboxing and Rust in Firefox to address security challenges in the browser, each has its limitations. Today we’re adding a third approach to our arsenal. RLBox, a new sandboxing technology developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Texas, Austin, allows us to quickly and efficiently convert existing Firefox components to run inside a WebAssembly sandbox.
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WebThings Gateway Goes Global
A walkthrough of what's new in the WebThings Gateway 0.11 release, which lets you build your own web things with the latest WebThings Framework libraries. The biggest change in this release is that we now reach WebThings Gateway users in 24 languages beyond English, thanks to translations from WebThings community members around the world. Thank you.
